Posts Tagged ‘adoptee rights’

Marijuana Makes Adoptive Parents Look Bad: Yes I mean YOU!

Adoptive Parents are NOT Acting in Best Interest of Children; Choosing Drugs over Kids ETA: Adoptee Rights has made it to the second and final round: PLEASE VOTE AGAIN!! Currently, Adoptees OBC access is currently in 14th Place and needs 16 more votes to be one of the 10 winning ideas. We have a...

February 17th, 2010 | Adoptee Rights, Feature | Read More

101 Best Adoption, Loss and Infertility Blogs

Back in 2008 when I wrote at A Child Chosen, I created a list that has since become one of my most popular posts. The Best of the Best: Top 50 Adoption Blogs has continued to circulate the web since I left b5media but some of those blogs have gone by the wayside and some have done so well the writers...

February 4th, 2010 | Carnival, Feature | Read More

Every Adoptee Legit

Over six MILLION adopted persons in 44 states are denied access to their original birth certificates. Neither of my boys have theirs. They have our names on them and that is just not right… I didn’t birth them. It should be, at least in my measly opinion, a birth certificate and an adoption...

January 22nd, 2010 | Adoptee Rights, Feature, Issues | Read More

At What Cost Adoptee Rights?

I have to admit I’m a bit pulled out of shape about the latest push for adoptee rights in my state, Missouri. I just got notification of a new bill, well it’s the same bill with a new number, but. . Rep. Cynthia Davis has prefiled a new House Bill (HB 1237) giving MO born adult adoptees...

December 20th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Easy Steps to Help Adoptees

What Adoptive Parents can do to Improve Their Children’s Future One night, look upon your sleeping child and say these words to yourself. “My child is growing up in a world where they will be denied the same rights of every other American just because he /she came to my life through adoption.” If...

August 14th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Ok, It Is Hard To Talk About It

In my last post I said we need to talk about adoption, about adoption reform, about our experiences. That got me thinking about how hard it really is. And as always, the below does not apply to everyone, just everyone I seem to meet. Think about the last time you met another adoptee. Did...

July 20th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

We Need To Talk

A friend of mine would like to get married. Not right now, but someday. She hasn’t found the right girl yet. She’d just like to think that she could get married when that woman does come along. She feels that this is her right. I’d like to have a copy of my original birth certificate. ...

July 5th, 2009 | Feature | Read More